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The Circus in bath as seen by Diana on a glorious day in November.
Diana+, Ilford HP5+, Kodak HC-110 (Dilution H)
Pulteney Bridge is a bridge over the River Avon in Bath, England. It was completed by 1774, and connected the city with the land of the Pulteney family which the family wished to develop. Designed by Robert Adam in a Palladian style, it is highly unusual in that it has shops built across its full span on both sides. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.
Within 20 years of its construction, alterations were made that expanded the shops and changed the façades. By the end of the 18th century, it had been damaged by floods, but was rebuilt to a similar design. Over the next century alterations to the shops included cantilevered extensions on the bridge's north face. In the 20th century, several schemes were carried out to preserve the bridge and partially return it to its original appearance, enhancing its appeal as a tourist attraction.
The bridge is now 45 metres (148 ft) long and 18 metres (58 ft) wide. Although there have been plans to pedestrianise the bridge, it is still used by buses and taxis. The much photographed bridge and weir below are close to the centre of the city, a World Heritage Site, renowned for its Georgian architecture.
The view from The Holburne Museum which is located in Sydney Pleasure Gardens, Bath, Somerset, England. The city's first public art gallery.
"Bath is the largest city in the county of Somerset, England, known for its Roman-built baths. In 2011, the population was 88,859. Bath is in the valley of the River Avon, 97 miles (156 km) west of London and 11 miles (18 km) south-east of Bristol. The city became a World Heritage site in 1987. The city became a spa with the Latin name Aquae Sulis ("the waters of Sul") c. 60 AD when the Romans built baths and a temple in the valley of the River Avon, although hot springs were known even before then." - from Wikipedia.
This summer I did a solo cycling tour across Europe through 12 countries over the course of 3 months. I began my adventure in Edinburgh, Scotland and finished in Florence, Italy cycling 8,816 km. During my trip I took 47,000 photos.
Image was shot on location from Solsbury Hill, which looks over the City of Bath. Solsbury Hill is also one of many possible locations where the Battle of Badon Hill was fought and is thought to be part of the Arthurian Legend.
Taken circa 1992 at night on a Pentax Z1 using B&W film. I was a student at the University of Bath at the time.
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pulling into bath over the arches
Fan vaulting at Bath Abbey, England: made from local Bath stone, this is a Victorian restoration (in the 1860s) of the original roof of 1608
Laches taking a relaxing bath after being shipped back and forth.
But... no water? XD
Laches is perfect this time! So happy!!!
Two Striated Thornbills commandeer the bird bath while a Jenny Wren waits for an entrance. Barragga Bay, NSW Far South Coast.
HD PENTAX-D FA 150-450mm f4.5-5.6
On the outside are my knees, breasts, and face. Head tipped back. Eyes closed. I can feel the water tickling the corners of my mouth. Inside is warm, calm, suspension. In the perfect silence I listen to my breathing, and the drip of a single drop of water from the faucet. Visualize the ripple traveling across the still surface. Most of me is floating above the bottom of the tub, I rise and sink a little with each breath. I feel the water line moving on my breasts in rhythm with my breathing. I think. Contemplate. Rest. Center.
Taken and edited with iPhone 4s
Sad Bath
I knew I would soon have to leave. The air itself seemed to whisper it, gently unraveling the thread of our days together. I would leave behind laughter echoing in quiet rooms, glances thick with unsaid things, the sacred refuge of his warmth, always near, always untouchable.
He had been my shelter, my silent witness. A pillar of tenderness cloaked in restraint. I loved him, not wildly, but with a slow, aching intensity. I danced on the edge of seduction, graceful and bare, hoping he might fall. But he remained affectionate, kind, unmoved. A father in spirit, a lover in shadow. Close enough to feel, but never to hold.
We were of each other’s worlds, orbiting with reverence, resisting gravity. Because to possess would be to shatter the sacred. And so, we let go, quietly, without farewell.
That morning, I slipped into a comforting bath, letting the warmth embrace me until it surrendered to cold. Water traced my skin like a soft memory, fading, caressing me like trembling fingertips. I let it carry my thoughts, my longing, my grief. And as the steam dissolved into air, a deep, beautiful sadness settled in, like prayer, like peace...
by Lis Xia
Photography and file processing; LC Nevermind(Luis Campillo)
Artistic direction, MUAH, props, caption and model; Lis Xia
Gear; Nikon D700, Nikkor 50mm 1.8 AI, 1250 ISO
Original RAF file processed with newly-released DXO PureRAW 2, before creation of JPEG in Lightroom 5.4.
Bath Abbey's tower from the South.
One of the largest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture in the West Country, Bath Abbey is a Church of England parish church and former Benedictine monastery. Founded in the 7th century, it was reorganised in the 10th century and rebuilt in the 12th and 16th centuries. The restoration of the cathedral was completed just a few years before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.
The medieval abbey church served as a sometime cathedral of a bishop. After long contention between ecclesiastics in the cities of Bath and Wells, the seat of the Diocese of Bath and Wells was later consolidated at Wells Cathedral after the Benedictine community was dissolved in 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Prior Holloway surrendered Bath Priory to the crown in January 1539. It was sold to Humphry Colles of Taunton. The church was stripped of lead, iron and glass and left to decay. Colles sold it to Matthew Colthurst of Wardour Castle in 1543. His son Edmund Colthurst gave the roofless remains of the building to the corporation of Bath in 1572. The corporation had difficulty finding private funds for its restoration.
In 1574, Queen Elizabeth I promoted the restoration of the church, to serve as the grand parish church of Bath. She ordered that a national fund should be set up to finance the work, and in 1583 decreed that it should become the parish church of Bath. James Montague, the Bishop of Bath and Wells from 1608 to 1616, paid £1,000 for a new nave roof of timber lath construction; according to the inscription on his tomb, this was prompted after seeking shelter in the roofless nave during a thunderstorm. He is buried in an alabaster tomb in the north aisle.
During the 1820s and 1830s buildings, including houses, shops and taverns which were very close to or actually touching the walls of the abbey were demolished and the interior remodelled by George Phillips Manners who was the Bath City Architect. Manners erected flying buttresses to the exterior of the nave and added pinnacles to the turrets
The abbey is a Grade I listed building, particularly noted for its fan vaulting. It contains war memorials for the local population and monuments to several notable people, in the form of wall and floor plaques and commemorative stained glass. The church has two organs and a peal of ten bells. The west front includes sculptures of angels climbing to heaven on two stone ladders, representing Jacob's Ladder.
This description incorporates text from the English Wikipedia.